A bomb of Gmail invites that is.
Along with countless other users, have been given 50 Gmail invites. What am I going to do with 50 Gmail invites! I guess I could give them away.
So, if you happen to be reading this and are one of the 10 people who don’t yet have a Gmail account, zap me an e-mail from the contact form on my site with your first and last name and an e-mail address and I will send you an invite.
It does seem that with this new round of invites, they have overhauled the way that you give invites. Instead of having to click on a link at the top of your inbox, there is now a form in the left sidebar that you can just enter someones e-mail address in and it sends the invite.
I’ve been giving my invites away to strangers using the super-simple form at isnoop.net
Is anyone else guessing that they’re pretty close to getting rid of the beta tag? It’s about time they start finishing some projects.
As someone pointed out the other day, GoogleNews has been in beta for well over a year now…maybe close to two.
It is interesting that they have given so many invites out recently. They obviously know that people freely auction them off on their blogs so maybe they want to test their server capability with the new load that will come. How much do these servers cost Google, by the way? 1gig/user doesn’t sound like a lot until you have millions of users…
Sup Ian.
A Gig of hard drive space is cheap. I mean, you can buy a 120gb SuperATA drive for about $100.
Besides, Google is making money off the adsense that are included when you view e-mails.
Jeremy: I read somewhere that the reason why Google News is still in beta is solely due to legal issues. I mean, it’s finished by all standards. If they go live with it, they would put some ads on the page–without which, it wouldn’t generate a cent of revinue.
But having a finished commercial site somehow violates the ‘fair use’ statute of copyright law. You may ask how it’s any different than a regular search: Honestly, i don’t know. But according to some lawyers, it’s different.
And as opposed to regular search that generally help the linked companies, linking news takes away ad revenues from newspapers: They’d much rather you go through their whole site instead of bits. So most of those newspapers are pissed as is, and owned by media giants who’re just waiting to sic their blood hungry lawyers at Google. So the speculation is, Google news will be in perma-beta, and will just serve as a feature–not moneymaker–for Google.
Interesting Cliche.
Do you remember where you read that information?
I don’t really remember where I first saw it, but a quick search got me a similar article:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65106,00.html
1gig is cheap, but you the main point to consider is that maybe only 1%-3% of the people will actually reach up to a gig in email space.
Right Scrivs. I have been using Gmail since June 04, have well over 1000 messages, 31mb worth, and that is only 3% of my 1gb storage.
I have 10 invites with nobody to send them to. Send me an email at finvarra@gmail.com and I will send you one.